AQW 1957/17-22

Ms Claire Sugden
Independent
East Londonderry

Tabled Date: 12/02/2020
Answered On Date: 02/03/2020
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for the Economy whether all toilet facilities accessible for females, at each university campus, are equipped with sanitary product dispensers; and to confirm whether sanitary products are provided free of charge.

Answer:

Accessibility to sanitary products varies across the Higher Educationinstitutions. At Queen’s University, the Student’s Union provides free sanitaryproducts in all toilets (female, male and accessible) in its buildings. UlsterUniversity has free to vend sanitary product dispensers installed in gender-neutral bathrooms across all four campuses. At Stranmillis University College not all female-accessible toilets are equipped with sanitary product dispensers, and where they are, they are not free. At St. Mary’s University College not all toilet facilities accessible by females are equipped with dispensers and they are not free, however free products will be made available on request. Given that the Open University is a distance learning institution, it does not have a university campus.